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Dancing while we weep: A statue of former Democratic Republic of the Congo president Laurent-Désiré Kabila on the 18th anniversary of his assassination — January 16 2019 — in Kinshasa.
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC

Parsing Kabila through rumba

‘Chimurenga Chronic: Who Killed Kabila II’ sees memories of the past battle the future

  • Gwen Ansell
5 min read
Rebel music: Zimdancehall gets the crowd jumping at a concert in Zimbabwe
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC

The music of the outlaws

It’s no coincidence that decades after liberation Zimdancehall is becoming more acceptable

  • Kwanele Sosibo
7 min read
Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in on November 24, setting out a programme that envisages a reversal of many of Robert Mugabe’s signature policies and promising that elections due in 2018 would go ahead. (AFP)
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC

Mapping out the new Zim

The pan-African magazine marks the end of the Mugabe era as a moment of imaginative, if not political, liberation.

  • Kwanele Sosibo
5 min read